How do I recover my career after working in a small HR role?
Recruiters and hiring managers often get thrown off by small employee group experience, letting it overshadow previous work and hurt overall career prospects. This perception makes it difficult to advance or secure larger roles when interviewing for future positions.
What people tried
Every workaround mentioned in the threads below. We haven’t tested any of them — and nobody here is claiming they worked.
- 1framing experience as depth instead of breadth by highlighting complex employee relations cases or compensation restructures
- 2Staying at the current job for multiple years and aiming for a promotion to rewrite the resume narrative
- 3Omitting very short stints or jobs with bad departures from the resume
In their words
Unedited, most upvoted first, each linked to the thread it came from.
“I guess with everything being said, should I want to eventually move up, or if I ever leave, how can I recover from all this? Clearly I know the issue is me as im the common denominator in all lf this, but I just want to know if anyone has suffered similarly and was able to recover?”source ↗
“I feel like because I have such a small group, it’s hurting my career prospects.”source ↗
“I have been interviewing occasionally and when they ask me how many employees I support, I can tell that it kind of throws them off.”source ↗
“because my most recent experience is with this smaller group, it overshadows my previous work.”source ↗
Where this came up
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